Hank Ehrenfried: Look Out!
These seventeen drawings by Brooklyn-based artist Hank Ehrenfried were completed during the statewide stay-at-home order issued in response to COVID-19. All are drawn from photographs taken before the age of social distancing; images which take on a strange new poignancy in these uncertain times. The artist writes…
We are all faced with the possibility of a future that looks unlike anything we could ever imagine ourselves in. At its most violent and uncompromising, this future would hold no place for us at all. Meanwhile the repetitiveness of each day disrupts the continuity of the present, which now appears in an impossible, bizarre technicolor. In a world that has been ordered to stand still, all feels disorganized and uninhabitable.
For Ehrenfried, these drawings are a means of organizing the time shortly before we were all asked to pause. In this uncertain present, the clarity and familiarity of this immediate past is special, but the world as it was may simply be without use for us now, despite how clearly it remains in our memory.
Emile-Antoine Bourdelle’s ‘Adam’ on June 27, 2017 2:12pm
2020, Colored pencil on paper, 12 x 9 inches
March 12, 2018 9:55am on Train 567
2020, Colored pencil on paper, 9 x 12 inches
Misprint; Horizontal
2020, Colored pencil on paper, 9 x 12 inches
March 8, 2020 5:56pm
2020, Colored pencil on paper, 9 x 12 inches - SOLD
October 13, 2019 12:48pm at Linda’s
2020, Colored pencil on paper, 12 x 9 inches - SOLD
August 9, 2019
2020, Colored pencil on paper, 12 x 9 inches
March 15, 2019 in San Diego
2020, Colored pencil on paper, 12 x 9 inches - SOLD
Christmas Eve, 2019
2020, Colored pencil on paper, 12 x 9 inches
June 1, 2019 6:32pm
2020, Colored pencil on paper, 12 x 9 inches - SOLD
Fairfield Porter on May 8, 2019 2:32pm
2020, Colored pencil on paper, 12 x 9 inches - SOLD
August 6, 2019 in Virginia Beach
2020, Colored pencil on paper, 12 x 9 inches - SOLD
Leeks by Andy Baraghani on August 1, 2019
2020, Colored pencil on paper, 12 x 9 inches - SOLD
July 12, 2018 8:16am
2020, Colored pencil on paper, 12 x 9 inches - SOLD
We the Drowned September 13, 2019
2020, Colored pencil on paper, 12 x 9 inches
San Diego Slide
2020, Colored pencil on paper, 12 x 9 inches
August 27, 2019
2020, Colored pencil on paper, 12 x 9 inches
December 3, 2018
2020, Colored pencil on paper, 12 x 9 inches
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